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Talks

• Finding the needle: a deep dive into the rewriting of Haystack May 16, 2024
• Project Layout Patterns in Go Oct 22, 2018
• A Python and a Gopher Walk into a Bar - Embedding Python in Go Jan 24, 2017
• Python - Go One Way Dec 4, 2015
• How we stopped using the mouse and started drawing molecules with our fingertips Oct 6, 2015

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Book reviews and notes

• ★★★★★ Anything You Want by Derek Sivers Oct 16, 2025 Very inspiring, going through the book was like listening to the author telling his story to a friend. The style is minimalistic, no tricks to produce more pages, no repetitions, always straight to the point. It really makes you want start your own business, and not for the money but rather for the journey and fulfillment. ...more

• ★★★★★ Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig Jul 26, 2025 First book I read from the author, I’m now curious to read the others. For being an essay the prose is a bit strange, some chapters are shorts, some longer, some seem aphorisms… But you get used to it pretty fast and you get more and more into the point of view of the author as you progress. ...more

• ★★★★★ The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI by Baldur Bjarnason Mar 9, 2025 At the time I’m writing, this is the best book you can read to form an opinion around the “dysfunctions, risks, and flaws of generative models” that very rarely reach the mainstream. ...more

• ★★★★☆ Rebooting AI by Gary F. Marcus, Ernest Davis Sep 18, 2024 The book accurately describes the problems with the current trend of AI development, problems from which large language models and tools like ChatGPT greatly suffer. Only the book was written before ChatGPT! It’s impressive how actual the book can be, and even more impressive is learning how these problems have been known for years now and the industry seems to just not care. ...more

• ★★★★☆ Elon Musk by W. Isaacson Feb 15, 2024 Great read as any biography from Walter Isaacson, it’s a massive volume but it was very enjoyable and fast to read. Love him or hate him, Musk is a very influential individual for our time, and the book unveiled for me several details about the events that made him “Elon”. ...more

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